Outfly the living storm.
Touch anywhere to move; your weapons fire themselves. Build your loadout one level-up at a time, claim Relics from boss caches, and spend idle Cores at the Forge between runs.
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One-thumb flight
Storm Surges
Fair rankings
How it plays
Move with one thumb, auto-fire wild weapons, and survive the living storm.
Fly into a violet storm with one thumb and let six auto-firing weapons do the shooting. Collect gems, draft upgrades, evolve your kit, and trigger Relics when a Storm Surge crowds the screen. The Reactor earns Cores between sessions; the Forge builds stronger personal flights. Daily Storm and Open League rankings give every pilot the same starting build, free or Pro.
- One-thumb control — weapons fire themselves
- Six weapons, paired evolutions, passives, and build-changing Catalysts
- Storm Surges, boss caches, tactical Relics, and fair fixed-start rankings
The loop
Every run follows one honest loop.
- 01Move
- 02Vacuum XP
- 03Draft an upgrade
- 04Survive a Storm Surge
- 05Face the Collapsar
- 06Trigger a Relic
- 07Collect Reactor Cores
- 08Forge a stronger regular flight.
What is inside
Inside Ionstorm.
One thumb, full storm
Touch anywhere and a floating joystick appears under your thumb. Your weapons fire themselves — your only job is to move, survive, and choose what to build.
Build your loadout one level at a time
Every level offers one of three upgrades — new weapons, passive modules, Catalysts, or late-run overdrives. The run you survive with is the loadout you drafted on the fly.
Break the storm. Keep flying.
Face the Collapsar, then rotating bosses that change the pressure. Destroy a boss or outlast it to earn a relic cache. Reach the Collapsar finale, break the storm, and take your build into overtime.
Relics from boss caches
Outlast or defeat a boss, or clear a rift, to earn a cache — choose one Relic to hold. Nova Bomb clears the screen, Aegis Cell shields your hull, Chain Storm chains lightning through clusters, Magnet Surge vacuums every pickup instantly. Your relic bar holds three; tap any slot to fire it.
The Reactor keeps running while you're away
Your idle Reactor generates Cores between sessions. Open the Hub and collect before the cap fills — a full cap stops earning. Upgrade the rate and cap to build a bigger fuel supply with every check-in.
Build stronger personal flights
Spend Cores at the Forge for stronger weapons, higher integrity, faster weapon tempo, and wider pickup pull. Those upgrades belong to regular, unranked flights; Daily Storm and Open League keep their equal starting build.
Open League: same ship for everyone
Open League runs use a standard loadout, the same for everyone, so no Forge or Pro upgrade changes a ranking. Weekly and all-time boards; best survival time wins, with kills breaking ties. Tap a ranked pilot to inspect their weapons and evolutions. Daily Storm stays separate with the same starting build for everyone.
Why it exists
Built for a reason.
Ionstorm exists because horde survival gets powerful when the build compounds — run upgrades, idle Cores, Relics from bosses, and Forge permanents turn each session into a stronger start.
Made for horde-survival and roguelite fans who want hundreds of enemies on screen, fast builds, idle check-in hooks, and just-one-more-run escalation.
Inside the app
Real screens from Ionstorm.
Fair unlocks
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Unlock
Unlimited flights. Optional Pro.
- Free: unlimited regular flights and one ranked Daily each UTC day
- Ionstorm Full Game Unlock: $4.99 one-time
- StackForge Play Pass: $2.99/month or $14.99/year — Pro across StackForge games
No ads, energy systems, or forced run limits. Unlimited regular flights, ranked Daily Storm, and Open League are free. Ionstorm Pro opens every Forge and Reactor upgrade for regular flights, three saved loadouts, and 2× and 3× play speed. Unranked Daily practice is free for everyone. Pro never changes a ranked starting build.
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$2.99 a month or $14.99 a year unlocks Pro in every StackForge game, plus One Good Thing.
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